Pavillon Vendôme, Aix en Provence. Hard place to be miserable.
Tissues, nose drops, paracetamol, lemons, ginger, honey – a shopping list of misery.
Now, pack your miserable self, your miserable list and your miserable head cold to the centre of Aix-en-Provence on a sunny day and do your shopping.
No, it didn’t cure my cold – but it was quite hard to stay miserable.
Palais Archiepiscopal – featuring a great example of Aix’s famous carved doors
I’d stared at the lovely Place d’Albertas a dozen times before I finally learned that it is one of Provence’s finest examples of Baroque architecture.
Even the tat looks good here